Background: Hospitalization provides an opportunity to provide patients who use tobacco with evidence-based treatment for cessation, including nicotine replacement therapy, motivational interviewing, and pharmacotherapy. However, this benefit is often lost without appropriate transitions in care to outpatient cessation resources. We have found that inpatient tobacco cessation interventions at our 600-bed urban academic medical center do [...]

Case Presentation: A 56-year-old man with a medical history of nicotine dependence, gastroesophageal disease (GERD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) emphysema sub-type presented to the outpatient clinic for the evaluation of cough and shortness of breath. Cough was said to be productive of light-yellow sputum and he denied any associated fevers or chest pain. [...]